Making Sense with Sam Harris | 9 September 2018 | 1h 36m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Jonathan Haidt about the ideas in The Coddling of the American Mind. Covers hostility to free speech, recent moral panics on campus, the role of intentions in ethical life, the economics of prestige in “call out” culture, bigotry, systemic racism and the paradox of progress.

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 19 September 2018 | 2h 06m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Yuval Noah Harari about his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Discusses the importance of meditation, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilisation, threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism and the implications of AI and automation.

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 29 August 2018 | 1h 03m | Listen Later | iTunes
Discussion with Jaron Lanier about the economics, politics, and psychology of our digital lives. Discusses the insidiousness of the notion that information should be free, what we should want from an advanced economy, the role of advertising, libertarianism in Silicon Valley, and why to abstain from social media.

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 19 June 2018 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Andrew Yang, author of The War on Normal People, about universal basic income (UBI). Discusses the state of the economy, the rise of automation and AI, and thoroughly canvases the arguments for and against UBI.